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runningmn9 t1_itw9qgb wrote

Reply to comment by pab_guy in Aaron Rodgers, “Critical Thinking,” and Intellectual Humility by ADefiniteDescription

Seriously. I don’t know whether Aaron Rodgers is a critical thinker, but I do know that all of the times he’s tried to project himself as a critical thinker, he’s just advocating for easily disproven nonsense.

People that are really smart / experts in one field, can sometimes assume that it makes them experts in other fields. He intuitively knows that I can’t read some google results and then process a live football play as well as he can, but he doesn’t seem to understand that reading a few web pages on topics that he has no education or experience with does not make him an expert on those things.

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Hotrodkungfury t1_itxldao wrote

Lmao, and we all know that experts are NEVER wrong!

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runningmn9 t1_itxlk5i wrote

Experts are right infinitely more often than non-experts.

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Hotrodkungfury t1_ity09iv wrote

Sycophants and zealots are wrong more often than not too…

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beingsubmitted t1_itybpjz wrote

That's a completely different statement.

In your first statement, you compared experts to omniscience. Your argument can be interpreted as "experts are not always correct, therefore we shouldn't value their opinion"

The rebuttal was that instead of comparing experts to omniscience, the more appropriate comparison is to the alternative: non-experts. Neither is always correct, but those are the options, and the experts are preferable.

You then mischaracterize this, "experts are correct more often than non-experts" as "experts are correct more often than they are incorrect". That's an entirely different statement. It is not the statement being made in the comment you're replying to.

Was that on purpose, or a mistake?

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